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matters. Should your complaint, after due process and close examination, be adjudged picayune, idle, foolish, bothersome, trivial, malicious, ill-advised, inconvenient, well-taken, or justified, your travel privileges on the GGNESWC&EE&T Co. will be revoked, now and for perpetuity; in addition, you will be fined the full administrative cost of ­processing your complaint, in addition to a punitive surcharge, such surcharge to be monetary in nature, though not excluding, at the discretion of that office of the Company which has been duly assigned to handle such matters, a ­thorough investigation of your ancestry, habits, character and associ­ations by the Consortium Constabulary, the results of said investigation to be, at the whim of the Consortium, or any of its subsidiaries involved in the case, or any of its subsidiaries not ­involved in the case, broadcast to the world at large, with the inten­tion, and the invariable result, of blackening your character, destroying your career, and breaking your spirit.”
Zulkeh thought upon these words. At length he spoke.
“Sirrah, I see that your establishment does not take these matters lightly. An attitude, I might say, with which I find myself in complete accord! I would, however, appreciate your telling me of the difference between the various classes and rates listed in yon table.”
“The tickets.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“The tickets. Size and color. Size is class, color is rate.”
“That is